Much has been made of the Sarah Palin “target map” of Democrat candidates. Her map was first posted March 23, 2010 on her Facebook page. Here is that posting. Note the now-infamous ‘targets’ on the map, which look more like inkblots. ( the map here may or may not have been scrubbed)

#2 Democrats and liberals, such as leftie-website Daily Kos, have been using targets and bulls-eyes to label candidates for much longer than Sarah Palin. In fact, “Kos” put targets on Congresswoman Giffords because she wasn’t deemed liberal enough and even carried a blog post from a reader, Boy Blue, (who is thought to be Loughner) who posted on Kos a few days before the shootings that Giffords was “dead to him” because she isn’t liberal enough.

#4The person who apparently started the media ball rolling on Saturday blaming Sarah Palin’s target map and Republicans, and who first (wrongly) labeled killer Loughner as an Afghanistan war veteran was Arizona state senator Linda Lopez. She is extremely left-wing (open borders, gun control) and a friend of Congresswoman Giffords who was interviewed by Shep Smith on Fox News very early in the crisis on Saturday. (slap you Shep for being such a pansy and not calling her out on all her smearing and slandering. He slobbered along with Lopez. Media malpractice for failure to pose adequate follow-up questions.)

Democrat Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. of New Jersey blamed Fox News for the murders. Immediately after the first bulletins, he told a local newspaper: “There’s an aura of hate and elected politicians feed it, certain people on Fox News feed it.”

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Crud-cake economist Paul Krugman, who blogged on the New York Times website before the victims had even been identified: “We don’t have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was…

Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik continues to defend his baseless, asshat news conference Saturday where he refused to discuss the “true” facts of the murder in favor of ranting about Republicans. He outrageously claimed that political rhetoric and “vitriol” caused Loughner to shoot Giffords. Under questioning by Megyn Kelly on Sunday, Dupnik admitted there that there is no proof that Loughner had any political reasons for murder, but he took his leftish screed even farther, railing “we need to do something” about free speech (and Republicans, of course.)

#6 Never let a good bloody shopping center massacre go to waste?

According to Politico: Several unnamed Democrat operatives are reported to have said, “[we] need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers… Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people” and “[there is a] climate of bitter and virulent rhetoric against the government and Democrats.”

#7 According to Warner Todd Huston at Big Government, a prominent progressive fund-raising group with ties to the leftist website Daily Kos, immediately sent out emails during Saturday’s shooting aftermath, blaming Sarah Palin and asking for campaign donations.

#8 It didn’t even take 24 hours after the shooting and HERE COMES THE BIG NANNY BRIGADE:

To be clear, if you’re using this event to criticize the “rhetoric” of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you’re either: (a) asserting a connection between the “rhetoric” and the shooting, which based on evidence to date would be what we call a vicious lie; or (b) you’re not, in which case you’re just seizing on a tragedy to try to score unrelated political points, which is contemptible. Which is it?

I understand the desperation that Democrats must feel after taking a historic beating in the midterm elections and seeing the popularity of ObamaCare plummet while voters flee the party in droves. But those who purport to care about the health of our political community demonstrate precious little actual concern for America’s political well-being when they seize on any pretext, however flimsy, to call their political opponents accomplices to murder.

Where is the decency in that?

#10 It is actually President Obama who is engaging in calls for violence:

Theblogprof has a roundup of many examples of inflammatory rhetoric by Democrats:

“Here’s the problem: It’s almost like they’ve got – they’ve got a bomb strapped to them and they’ve got their hand on the trigger. You don’t want them to blow up. But you’ve got to kind of talk them, ease that finger off the trigger.” Barack Obama on banks, March 2009

“A Republican majority in Congress would mean ‘hand-to-hand combat’ on Capitol Hill for the next two years, threatening policies Democrats have enacted to stabilize the economy.” Barack Obama, October 6, 2010